Historians
- Julia Adams, economic and social history
- Petrus Johannes Blok, survey
- J. C. H. Blom, survey
- M. R. Boxell, political history
- Pieter Geyl, Dutch revolt; historiography
- Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), cultural history
- Jonathan Israel, Dutch Republic
- Louis De Jong, World War II
- John Lothrop Motley, American historian of the Dutch Revolt
- Jan Romein (1893–1962), theoretical and world history
- Jan de Vries, economic history
- Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Age of Enlightenment, Baruch Spinoza
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“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
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“All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn’t fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn’t fair.”
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“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)